Wooden plate



(N0 Model.)

E. C. WESTER'VELT.

WOODEN PLATE.

110,284,347. Patented Sept. @1883.

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VELT, a citizen of the United at South Bend,in the county of St. Josephand State of Indiana, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in\Vooden Plates, of which the following is aspecification, had to theaccompanying drawings.

. SPEGIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters To all wh'om it may concernbutter, berries, and for other purposes; and it consists of a dishhaving curved sides and flat bottom, the same being cut or scooped in asingle piece from the face of a block of wood, as will be hereinafterfully described.

is a view of my improved plate complete. Fig. 2 is a side view of same,showing flat bot tom :0 w.

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with round bottom does not sit firmly on scale or counter, and a slighttouch will tip it over. My improved plates are made of wood in a singlepiece by cutting them from the face of a block of wood across the grainof the latter. The block of wood is heldfirmly in a frame or box,whilethe plate is cut or scooped from its UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND G. WESTERVELT, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

I WOODEN PLATE.

Application filed June Be it known that I, EDMUND C. WEs'rER- States,residing reference being This invention relates to plates or dishes forIn the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 Fig. 3 is an end view of plateout The same letters refer to same parts in all I do not broadly claim aplate or dish out or plate hasa flat, nearly having a fiat and is'noteasily A dish Patent No. 284,347, dated September 4, 1883.

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ends and Said knife is secured to a face with a knife having curvedstraight center.

make a straight out across the bottom of the dish, when it will thenfinish the outer out, following a circular line, thus forming a dishhaving a flat bottom and curved sides.

Of course it will be seen that by having the shaft onwhich the knife is;secured controlled in its relative positions to the face of the block bymeans of a cam or other automatic arrangement the knife may be made toout many different forms. I do not desire to confine myself to the cammotion, as there are several ways of giving the above-described motionto the knife, and so of producing the same result.

7 Having described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States A plate or dish consisting of a veneer cutor. scooped from a block of wood, saidplate or dish having a flat bottomand curved sides and ends, substantially as set forth, as an article ofmanufacture.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

EDMUND O. WESTERVELT. Attest- V 'WILLIs A. BUGBEE, WILLIAM L. KIZER.

shaft, which shaft is made to rotate, and by

